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16 Nov. 2021 / 13:14
The centenary of the birth of the poet Vasile Leviţchi was celebrated
One hundred years since the birth of the emblematic poet of post-war Bukovina Vasile Leviţchi, established in 1990 in Chisinau, was marked by a symposium. The event took place online and was organized by the Department of Romanian Language and Literature in Chernivtsi, which was attended by the disciples of the renowned man of culture, Moldova 1 reports.
One of Vasile Leviţchi's disciples is the poet and vice-president of the Writers' Union of Moldova Arcadie Suceveanu, who presented a new editorial, suggestively titled "Later with a life". The microanthology with the lyrics of Vasile Leviţchi appeared under the aegis of the Writers' Union of Moldova, at a publishing house in Chisinau.
In the prestigious and elegant collection "Spring of Poets", the undersigned signed the preface of this book and made the selection of lyrics. Being one of the privileged who were his disciples, I was also his student, I was also his friend. Vasile Leviţchi's poetry resists a new reading even in the new literary conditions," said the poet Arcadie Suceveanu.
"Once we talk about Vasile Leviţchi's poetry, it is correct to quote: "I kept dreaming richly, I have been looking for a lifetime where the mountains are falling apart." This moment of fragmenting the mountains, of capitalizing on the turmoil of the lyrical self is interestingly capitalized by the title of the poems "Pegasus of the race", "Desert of beauty". He is probably the man who constituted an important stage for the capitalization of freedom in Romanian poetry as well," said the scientific researcher Victoria Fonari.
In the essay published in "Revista Literară", Arcadie Suceveanu remembers that Vasile Leviţchi was revered by students. It was the poet and the teacher who awakened in the minds of young people the freedom of thought, the national consciousness, and pleaded for the dignity of being a novel in an alienated space.
He was and remains a symbol of the Romanian resistance in Bucovina, he was the editor of the newspaper "Zorile Bucovinei", the only Romanian-language newspaper in Bucovina at that time. He was a university professor, a school teacher and we, the ones who wrote and still write today, owe a lot to Vasile Leviţchi, who was a special reactive factor in the Romanian entourage of the 60s-70s-80s of the last century," added Arcadie Suceveanu.
Today, Vasile Leviţchi's work is unjustly neglected. Some anthologies avoid including his creation, says Arcadie Suceveanu. During the symposium, the poet's disciples from Chisinau, Chernivtsi and Bucharest spoke about the efforts to rectify the situation and the need to bring the poet's work up to date, but also the poet's personality.
Vasile Leviţchi was born on November 15, 1921 in Carapciu, Storojineţ County, Bucovina. He worked in Chernivtsi. Since 1990, he has settled in Chisinau, but he has never forgotten about his dear Bukovina. The poet died in 1997 and was buried in the Central Cemetery in Chisinau.
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